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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjanusgraph.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2006201020171991
Current release2.1.5, March 20190.6.3, February 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesoptional
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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